Police are investigating after a 17-year-old girl who had just given birth in a fifth-floor dormitory toilet threw the child out of the window.

The baby's body was found in a lane below the electronics factory dormitory in Dongguan City in the southeastern Guangdong Province.

The mother, a Hunan Province native identified only as Aying, who works at the factory, went into labor in the early hours of Monday morning.

She gave birth to a baby boy in a public toilet in the factory's dormitory building, reported Guangzhou Daily.

The birth came as a shock to the young mother as she didn't know she was pregnant, said the newspaper.

She placed the child in a plastic bin in the toilet and threw him out of the window, the paper reported.

The girl was on a five-day sick leave when reached by police and was sent to hospital for a check-up.

She admitted that the baby was hers, saying she'd had sex with her boyfriend when he visited from Hunan last November.

However, Aying said she'd had no idea she was pregnant.

"I searched on the Internet and read that pregnancy can lead to morning sickness and fluid retention," she said. "But as I didn't have these, I didn't take it seriously."

Police are waiting for autopsy results to establish whether the baby was stillborn or died from the fall. It will then be decided if Aying is to face manslaughter charges.

The young mother said the baby did not cry after being born.

Aying said she felt a sharp pain in her stomach around midnight on Sunday and rushed to the dormitory building's toilet.

After giving birth, in shock she put the child into a bin in the toilet and threw him out the window.

She went back to the dorm and hid her stained clothes without telling anyone. Aying and the father of the child are no longer in contact.

"My mother has no idea I abandoned the child, and she'll beat me if she gets to know," Aying told police. She told officers that, given another chance, she would have brought the baby back to her hometown in Hunan.

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